This would appear to be the same Horstman family - Brooklyn New York Thursday 10 May 1956 - brothers Harry and Edward are mentioned in the obituary for Frederick Martin Horstman
Services To Be Conducted Today For F. M. Horstman, Coal Dealer.
Funeral services for Frederick M. Horstman, 78, retired coal dealer, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Darraugh Funeral Home, 8813 5th Ave. The Rev. Walter Martin, pastor of Trinity Lutheran
Church, Bay Ridge, will officiate. Burial will be in Green-Wood Cemetery.
Mr. Horstman, who was associated with one of the oldest coal concerns in Brooklyn, died on
Monday., He was a lifelong Brooklyn resident, and for 45 years resided in Flatbush. Recently he
had made his home at 35 Oliver St.
He was a son of the late Martin Horstman, who was a founding partner of the firm of Schroeder
and Horstman," which for years had a coal yard on the Gowanus Canal at 3d St. and 3d Ave. For many years the son was associated in business with his father, and later became a partner in the cola firm of Horstman-Nugent Co., 6th Ave. and 9th St. He retired six years ago.
While in Flatbush, Mr. Horstman was active in the affairs of St. Peter's Lutheran Church.
In January of 1955, Mr. Horstman and his wife, Mrs. Laura Horstman, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. The occasion was marked by a reception at the Hotel Roosevelt in Manhattan.
Surviving besides his wife, are a son, John Horstman; a daughter, Miss Helen Horstman - a sister,
Mrs. J.G.F. Blaesl, wife of the Rev. Dr. Blaesi, pastor of St. Peter's Chcrch, and two brothers
Harry and Edward Horstman.
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